Also in the 2004 TV poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.

He appeared in the primetime TV movies The Satan Murders ( 1974 ) and Thursday's Game before landing the role of Al Pacino's transsexual wife in Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 ), a performance which earned him nominations for Best New Male Star of the Year at the Golden Globes and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

The Godfather Part II is ranked as the # 1 greatest movie of all time in TV Guide's " 50 Best Movies of All Time ", and is ranked at # 7 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the " 100 Greatest Movies of All Time ".

In 1995 the show won Best New TV Comedy at the British Comedy Awards, with O ' Hanlon receiving Top TV Comedy Newcomer Award.

At the 1998 Golden Globe Awards, he was nominated for " Best Actor in a Made for TV Movie " for his role in Twelve Angry Men losing to Ving Rhames.

Falk, who played Reles again in the 1960 TV series The Witness, was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance in the film.

* The Rogues ( TV series ), 1964 Golden Globe winner for Best Television Series

The most known examples of which being Aquila ( TV series ) ( 1997 – 1998 ) based on the novel by Andrew Norriss and Jeopardy ( BBC TV series ) ( 2002 – 2004 ) which won the 2002 BAFTA for Best Children's Drama.

Gellar came into prominence in the late 1990s when she landed significant parts in the successful horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 and played Buffy Summers on the WB / UPN television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she won six Teen Choice Awards and the Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actress and received a Golden Globe Award nomination.

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Her relationship with Homer was included in TV Guides list of " The Best TV Couples of All Time ".

" Parents Television Council named it the Best TV Show of the Week, and 5 ) Holiday sales for the five-week period ending January 2, 2010, achieved Macy's sales goals: $ 4. 4 billion US in sales, 1 % growth in same-store sales, and 29 % growth of Macys. com.

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These include A Clockwork Orange, The Snake Pit, Quantum Leap ( TV series ), Stargate, Frances, Requiem for a Dream, the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey as well as the movie adaptation, Melrose Place, A Beautiful Mind, The Caretaker, The Best of Youth, House ; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Shine, The Beverly Hillbillies ( film ), the film version of Girl, Interrupted, Insanitarium, Changeling, Ciao!

** 1990: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV ( Stockwell )

** 1991: Best TV Series Episode ( Paul Brown, for " Goodnight, Dear Heart ")

In 1986 Joey Perrone was nominated for Best Juvenile Performance ( for his work on Young Talent Time ) at the TV Week Logie Awards.

This version of the theme song in an edited format is available on The Best of TV Quiz and Game Show Themes.

* Springfield, setting of the American drama TV series Father Knows Best

The 2000 comedy Best in Show, made by some of the same actors from This is Spinal Tap, was also done as a mockumentary, this time of various contestants at a fictional dog show.

Amarcord, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1975.

In this period, Pickford also made Sparrows ( 1926 ), which blended the Dickensian with newly minted German expressionist style, and the romantic comedy My Best Girl ( 1927 ).

He appeared in the comedy film A Fish Called Wanda, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

Paper Moon, a Depression-era comedy starring Ryan O ' Neal that won his 10-year-old daughter Tatum O ' Neal an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress, proved the high-water mark of Bogdanovich's career.

She starred in the sitcom, Mad About You, for seven years before being cast in the 1997 romantic comedy film, As Good as It Gets for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

The 2010 comedy Potiche, which starred Deneuve as a submissive wife who gets to run her husband's umbrella factory, received a BAFTA nomination as Best Foreign film.

For her performance in Lasse Hallström's romantic comedy Chocolat ( 2000 ) Binoche was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

From the initiation of short subject awards for 1932 until 1935 the terms were " Best Short Subject, comedy " and " Best Short Subject, novelty ".

Other film versions ( which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen ) include: the 1929 The Framing of the Shrew, directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom, and starring Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer ; the 1933 You Made Me Love You, directed by Monty Banks, and starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd ; the 1938 Second Best Bed, directed by Tom Walls, and starring Jane Baxter and Walls himself ; the 1942 Italian adaptation La bisbetica domata, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi ; the 1943 Hungarian adaptation Makacs Kata ( Stubborn Kate ) directed by Emil Martonffy, and starring Katalin Karády and Pál Jávor ; another 1943 Hungarian adaptation, Makrancos hölgy ( Unruly Lady ), directed by Viktor Bánky, and starring Emmi Buttykay and Miklós Hajmássy ; the 1948 Mexican adaptation Cartas marcadas, directed by René Cardona, and starring Marga López and Pedro Infante ; the 1956 Spanish adaptation La fierecilla domada, directed by Antonio Román, and starring Carmen Sevilla and Alberto Closas ; the 1962 Egyptian adaptation Ah min hawaa, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, and starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Rushdy Abaza ; the 1963 western McLintock !, directed by Andrew McLaglen, and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara ; the 1999 teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and starring Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford ( Katherina ) and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona ( Petruchio ); the 2003 comedy Deliver Us from Eva, directed by Gary Hardwick, and starring Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J ; and the 2010 Bollywood film Isi Life Mein, directed by Vidhi Kasliwal, and starring Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar.

He achieved great film success in a 1966 comedy as a shyster lawyer called " Whiplash Willie " Gingrich starring opposite Lemmon in The Fortune Cookie, the first of numerous collaborations with Billy Wilder, and a role that would earn him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

Due for release in 2010 is the film The Best and the Brightest, a comedy based in the world of New York City's elite private kindergartens.

DeLaria is also known for her touring " musical comedy about perverts ," Dos Lesbos ( 1987 – 1989 ) as well as Girl Friday, a comedy she conceived, wrote, directed and starred in, and which won the 1989 Golden Gull for Best Comedy Group in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Best known for starring in Channel 4's comedy The IT Crowd.

First coming to prominence as an original cast member on the hit TV comedy series Saturday Night Live in 1975, she went on to win back-to-back Emmy Awards for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series on the 1980s sitcom Kate & Allie portraying the role of Allison " Allie " Lowell.

Michael Curtiz was nominated twice for Best Director, one for this film and the other for the box office hit comedy melodrama Four Daughters.

Operating from a base in Toronto, as well as one maintained in California, he directed high profile actors Al Pacino in ... And Justice for All ( 1979 ), and Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn in the romantic comedy Best Friends ( 1982 ), and he produced The Dogs of War ( 1981 ) and Iceman ( 1984 ).

In 1956, Around the World in Eighty Days, Cantinflas's American debut earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a musical or comedy.

His subsequent television appearances include those in Three Live Wires, That's My Boy-the comedy series starring Mollie Sugden and Christopher Blake-and Best of Enemies.

Best remembered by TV viewers in 1960 as Jackie Gleason's sidekick on Gleason's various 1950s comedy / variety shows, including The Honeymooners " Ed Norton ", it was Carney who received the honors – six Emmies and a Best Actor Oscar ( for 1974's Harry and Tonto ) — to Gleason's none.

Sweetin starred in a TV pilot, Small Bits of Happiness, a dark comedy centered around a suicide prevention specialist ; it won Best Comedy at the 3rd Annual Independent Television Festival, in Los Angeles.

The Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series-Comedy is one of the annual Golden Globe Awards given to the best comedy television series.